Week of November 18, 2012

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Sunday, November 18

Sunday, November 18, 2012
2:30pm
Kidlat Tahimik (Philippines, 1990–2006). Kidlat Tahimik in person. Filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik presents several of his globe-trotting personal essay-films/documentaries, including Some More Rice, Roofs of the World! Unite!, Our Film-grimage to Guimares, Orbit 50, and Celebrating the Year 2021, Today. (87 mins) 
Sunday, November 18, 2012
5 pm
Kidlat Tahimik (Philippines, 1980–2011). Kidlat Tahimik in person. Filipino documentarian/essayist Kidlat Tahimik presents two of his major works, Memories of Overdevelopment (inspired by the true-life tale of Enrique, Magellan's Filipino slave/navigator), and Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi, on the bahag, a traditional Filipino loincloth. (74 mins)

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Friday, November 23

Friday, November 23, 2012
4 pm
Alexander Korda (France, 1931). The first installment in the beloved Fanny Trilogy introduces César, boisterous proprietor of a Marseilles bar; his son Marius, drawn by the call of the sea; and Fanny the fishmonger, the apex of a triangle between Marius and widower Panisse. "These films display such old-fashioned virtues as truth to life and boundless humanity" (Time Out). (122 mins)
Friday, November 23, 2012
7 pm
Marc Allégret (France, 1932). The continuation of the trilogy is Fanny's tragedy but César's story: he is played by the incomparable Raimu. (122 mins)

Saturday, November 24

Saturday, November 24, 2012
5 pm
Marcel Pagnol (France, 1936). The conclusion of the trilogy poignantly evokes remembrances and regrets as the cycle of life and love begins again. "Today the modest charms and graces of the Pagnol trilogy seem more precious than ever" (Time Out). (116 mins)
Saturday, November 24, 2012
7:20 pm
Jean Cocteau (France, 1946). Jean Cocteau's classic tale of love and transformation remains one of the cinema's most enchanting and sensuous excursions into the realm of poetic fantasy. “One of the most magical of all films” (Roger Ebert). (93 mins)